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U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Approves Concept Design by Reed Hilderbrand and Trahan Architects

Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, Vice Chairman of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts,
said in the hearing: “I want to underscore what I really appreciate about the new site
plan. One is the clarity of the spatial sequence, the degree to which courtyards and
gardens build rooms and thresholds as a coherent sequence. The second is that it’s
really rare that we get a design team that isn’t thinking about the building on one
drawing and the landscape on another drawing. We just don’t get this kind of
collaboration.”

“This recent flooding in New Orleans reminds us that all buildings need to be built to higher, with more resilient standards. Famously the Mercedes-Benz Superdome was badly damaged during Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 although it had to shelter about 16,000 residents whose homes were destroyed, as well as shelter about 150 National Guardsmen for six long days.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Trahan Architects was selected to be the lead architect and managing partner of the team that restored the iconic Superdome on an accelerated schedule, allowing it to reopen on September 25, 2006, under budget and ahead of schedule with a total cost of over $200 million…”

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